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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 13.
Published in final edited form as: ISME J. 2010 Jun 3;4(11):1375–1385. doi: 10.1038/ismej.2010.71

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Digestion increases bacterial community diversity and ‘species’ richness within the Burmese python large intestine. (a) Rarefaction curves for phylogenetic diversity measured by the average total branch length in a phylogenetic tree per sample after a specified number of sequences was observed. (b) Rarefaction curves for ‘species’ richness measured by determining the average number of OTUs defined at ≥ 97% sequence similarity per sample. Samples were partitioned into three post-feeding time intervals based on results shown in Figure 1b. Bars indicate 95% confidence intervals. DPF, days post-feeding.